The Collegian’s Feb. 19 staff editorial, “Keep tipping student workers,” sounded a feel-good call to aid the beleaguered student employees of A.J.’s Cafe and Jitters Coffee Cart. Its haughty tone helped conjure an overblown dramatization: The fascist Bon Appétit curtailing the Hillsdale student’s right, privilege, and patriotic obligation to tip their barista — the latest...
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022Features
From Lviv to Hillsdale
Serge Bosyk’s mother remembers her friends smuggling Levi jeans and bottles of Fanta soda into her country, Ukraine, when she was a college student. Under Soviet rule, Ukrainians could not purchase imported goods — if it wasn’t made in the USSR, it wasn’t sold. Although Ukrainians enjoy various soft drinks and denim pants now, freshman...
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022News
Students honored and place in Free Society Essay Contest
Junior Josiah Lippincott and senior Ashley Wright submitted essays to the Douglas B. Rogers Conditions of a Free Society Essay Contest and received second place and honorable mention respectively. St. Vincent College’s Center for Political and Economic Thought held its third annual competition. Lippincott’s essay entitled “The Death of the Separation of Powers and the...
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022Sports
Charger tennis serves in spring season
Women’s tennis opened up their spring season in Kalamazoo Sunday afternoon against Division I opponent Western Michigan University. The Chargers fell to the Broncos 7-0. All matches were completed in straight sets. Junior Lindsay Peirce played the closest singles match for the Chargers, losing the first set 6-4 and then falling behind 6-1 in the...
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022News
Enactus develops projects at ODK reception
Local business owners and community leaders met with campus leaders to strengthen ties between the city and college at a networking reception hosted by the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honorary Saturday at the college. Enactus, one of the student groups represented at the event, used the reception to develop one of its primary projects of...